Ig Nobel prizes

PUB. DATE

October 1991

SOURCE

New Scientist;10/5/91, Vol. 132 Issue 1789, p7

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

Editorial. Awards satirical Nobel prizes to several scientists. Physics prize to Thomas Kyle for the discovery of `administratium,' the heaviest known element; Josiah Carberry for founding psychoceramics, the study of cracked pots.

ACCESSION #

9110213648

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